Details

Updated yum packages that update yum to version 3.2.8 and resolve several
issues are now available.

Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download andinstall updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloadedautomatically prompting the user as necessary.

These updated yum packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

* yum now displays the location from which it acquired the GPG key.* yum now returns the appropriate exit codes when listing packages.* various corrections to the yum man page.* yum no longer outputs the error message "Cannot open logfile/tmp/yumroot/var/log/yum.log" when installing with the '--installroot' option.* a missing '/var/cache/yum/<repo>/headers' directory caused the command'yum clean all' to fail.* a leaking file descriptor caused a number of SELinux AVC denials.* the yum configuration file no longer contains the obsoleted 'pkgpolicy'option.* yum now handles full path requirements correctly.* yum now handles an empty group file correctly.* yum can now work with repositories on the Apache HTTP server which do nothave partial download (no Range header) support.* yum now sends the header "User-agent: urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.8".* a dependency misconfiguration has been fixed, so that yum now has thecorrect dependencies.* yum now installs yum-metadata-parser with the correct CPU architecture.* yum did not perform tracebacks when there were SQLite exceptions.* yum did not properly handle a recursion error which resulted in the errormessage "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded".* yum now correctly installs all dependencies.* a problem with a multilib install corner case has been corrected.* upgrading yum using anaconda and an installation key now works.* a critical memory leak in yum-updatesd was detected and fixed.* yum-updatesd no longer blocks other yum tools.* yum-updatesd no longer needs to restart when installed packages set changes.* yum-utils now works reliably with yum.* the yumdownloader option '--resolve' now works correctly.* the yumdownloader '--disablerepo' now works correctly.* the new plugins yum-filter-data and yum-list-data allow a wide-range offiltering and listing of yum results.* yum-changelog now works as expected.* yum-aliases now has a manual page.* pirut also now installs all of its dependencies correctly.* several GUI fixes and improvements in pirut and system-cdinstall-helper.* pirut translation issues with the ko_KR and de_DE locales have been fixed.* CD/DVD install now works and no longer gives a "IOError: <urlopen errorunknown url type: media>" error message.* pup now correctly updates sos and sysreport packages.* the puplet tray icon now appears as expected.

All users of yum are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, whichresolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.